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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1907
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
Of the 2,281 deaths of all ages, 457, were those of
persons aged over 65 years, a proportion of twenty
per cent. This gives a death rate, calculated upon
the estimated population of elderly persons of 947.
WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The line on the chart of deaths from all causes
indicates the number of deaths in the Borough week
by week corrected for institution deaths.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS AND
MORTALITY RATES.
Tables K and L overleaf, shew in addition to actual
numbers of deaths, quarterly and annual rates of
mortality for the principal Zymotic diseases and for
Phthisis in Bethnal Green and in the whole of London.
Particulars of birth and death rates and of
infantile death rates are also given.